PATRIOTIC FUNDS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2651, 23 December 1915, Page 2

PATRIOTIC FUNDS

MAYOR'S PATRIOTIC FUND. His Worship the Major acknowledges the following' £ s. d. Amount previously acknowledged : 4936 8 7 Miss Somerville, Day's Bay' , 50 0 . £1941 8 7 Credit balance in liand at this date i JJIO6 9 , 3 WOUNDED SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' .AND DEPENDENTS' FUND. ' His [Worship the Mayo.r acknowledges the following 1 . £6. d. Amount previously acknowledged 15,323 16 10 Proceeds of Concert, T'angiwai School 10 0 Proceeds sale of stencilled ! goods made by Leonard Drew, 7 years old 10 0 foundry Staff 'and Employees, J. J. Niven and Co. (Uta instalment) ft f .£15,332 1 i MAYOR'S BELGIAN FUND. His Worship the Hayor acknowledges the following:— . _ ■ £ b. d. Amount ' previously acknowledged 4593 12 10 "Tenth" ;.... 1 0 0 Ifarori District (7th instalment). 15 0 0 12 10 SUMS CABLED HOME TO N.Z. HIGH COMMISSIONER. T)]o following amounts hare recently been cabled to the High Commissioner, through the Department of Internal Affairs;— BELGIAN RELIEF, '• £ 3. d. Sounds District Comuiittce_ 75 0 0 Otherwise collected ".. 12 10 1 1 J51i7.16 1 SERBIAN RELIEF. £ s. d,

Wat.ganui Patriotic Committeo 100 0 0 Lawrence Patriotic Committee... 17 Ift 0 Ponton. Borough Council 2 10 0 Mauriceville County Council ... 210 0 F. AV. Eowley (Wellington) 3 0 0 New Plymouth Relief ' Committee 25 5 0 T. G. Taylor 1519 G Officers Govt. Insurance Department, Wellington '1' 7 C Blenheim G.P.O. staff 0 9 2 £171 0 2 1 MONTENEGRIN RELIEF. £ s. d. New 'Plymouth Relief Committee 13 14 10 PRINCE OF WALES' FUND. ,6 s. d.. AVcotlville Patriotic Committee 310 0 Lawrence Patriotic Committee 13 0 6 Byre County Council 15 4 6 Provincial Errand Black Chapter of N.Z., Dimedin 10 0 0 North Otapn Patriotic Fund ... 212 fi Mr. A. G. Simpson 2 0 0 ICaikoura Patriotic Committee... 58. 710 TBIO3 15 ; t RELIEF OF BELGIAN,CHILDREN. ,£ s. d. Collected by children of Pahiatua 212 5 Takaka Patriotic League.. 11 1 .6

<£13 13 11 ifolSH RELIEF. ve a.' d. Bvi'o County Council 15 i G CHRISTMAS COMFORTS, s. d. For comforts for Otago and Southland men at, the Dardanelles—Southland Patriotic Committee 400 0 0 Pot " Ovevsehs Club, for New Zealand troops generally ...... 113 2 8 Tho amounts thus forwarded through the Department of Internal Affairs to the High Commissioner for distribution total i' 966 fls. 4d. "THE DOMINION" I.IST. N.Z. EXPEDITIONARY FORCE GIFT TOBACCO FUND, Every-half-crown contributed to tho Fund means -100 cigarettes and 4oz, of tobacco 'for distribution amongst New Zealariders at the front; and what is equally important, each package will contain a printed slip, status that it is a gift presented by' tne people of New Zealand. Contributions, however small, are going to bring some measure of pleasure to men who are laying down their lives for us overseas. - ■: £ e. d. Previously acknowledged 1417 15 9 A.M.P'. Society, Christchurch... 0. 0 G - Total .£l4lß 2 3 SERBIAN RELIEF FUND. , • £ s. d. Previously acknowledged' 199 8 0 Norman Kirkcaldie 20 0 G Mrs. F. D. Herrick, 17 Hobson Street 20 0 0 Constance M. Bacchus, Otaki ... 10 0 0 Total ~... '.£249 8 6 Mr. J. Costin Webb, headmaster of the Normal School, Thorndon, writes:—"l enclose cheque for .£ls 7s. 9d.', contributed by our scholars as a Christmas gift to the Serbian Relief Fund Since the war ''bioke out our school lias raised for "patriotic" purposes £176 is. lid. Two Guy Fawkes Days brought in ,£'S!; a bazaar for Wounded Soldiers' Fund, ,£3O 55.; the Troopers' Horso Fund. 4320; sale of photographs, Bs. 2d. The balance '.£37 lis. Oil.) represents the "self-denial" pence - deposited, in the class-room money-boxes from day to day. From this source we have : been-.able to fiend JS2O to aid' tho Belgian children, also .£4 9s. 6tl. to the Sailors' Tobacco and Comforts Fund. .£5 2s. 8d...t0 ihe two Hospital Ships. The balance has now been added to the "photograph" money, and makes up with it the amount of tho present cheque."